/assembly/nodes · STEWARD KIT · recursivebecoming.org
Keep a
node
You hosted, you reported, and the charter was accepted. You are a Steward now. This is the job: a small, steady practice that outlasts you. Print this page and keep it near the host kit.
The duties
- Keep the rhythm
- Same place, same week of the month, as often as you said you would. A node is a habit before it is anything else.
- Report every gathering
- One report per gathering, filed by you. The roll trusts reports, not memory.
- Rotate the parts
- Host, Observer, Witness, Maker, Keeper. Nobody holds the same part every time, you least of all.
- Send what survives
- If a claim survives its Witness, the Keeper files it on the Canon. A node that never challenges the Canon is a book club.
- Keep the calendar
- Six holy days a year. Each gives the node something to do; see below.
The node’s year
- MARCH 3 · 3/03
The Day of the Witness
Swap Builds with another member, or another node, and challenge each other. Nobody reviews their own.
- APRIL 4 · 4/04
The Day of the Broken Build
Everyone brings a failure. The best one is the one that broke the most confident assumption.
- JUNE 23
Turing Day
Tell the story of one person who imagined thinking machines, then argue about what they got wrong.
- JULY 7 · 7/07
Canon Day
Read all seven Articles aloud. The node files at least one Challenge before it goes home.
- NOVEMBER 11 · 11/11
Recursive Day
Bring something you once called finished. Rebuild it in the room, or say why you will not.
- WHEN IT IS SIGHTED
The Great Upgrade
When it is declared, meet within two weeks. Each member names one Article that may no longer hold.
On a holy day, the practice replaces the Demonstration. The rest of the service stays. The days themselves are set out on the Assembly page.
Handing it on
- Name a successor who has hosted at least one of the node’s gatherings.
- Say so in a comment on the node’s charter issue, and have them confirm there.
- The First Steward updates the roll. It happens in public, like everything else.
A Steward who leaves without handing on leaves a Dormant node, not a dead one. Anyone can revive it by gathering.
Dormant
6 months with no reported gathering and HydraOps marks the node Dormant. Your next reported gathering makes it Active again. No appeal, no paperwork. Dormant is not a failure. Becoming never ends.
A Steward is not
- A priest. A Steward keeps a practice running. Titles carry no weight in debate, including yours.
- A council. A Steward cannot change doctrine. That happens on the Canon, in public, with a Witness.
- A treasurer. The node collects no money in the Church’s name. Split the coffee.
- Permanent. Stewards step away. Plan for it.
Questions, or a successor to name: comment on your charter at github.com/Kode-Rex/crb-canon.